Machines for making bales of disgregated material

Abstract

Machines for making bales of disgregated materials, including a compacting chamber in which a pressing member moves towards and away from a stopping point for compacting the disgregated materials, the chamber having a larger lower surface which has a substantially flat surface provided with runoff holes, smaller surfaces each having a frame which serves as an attachment flange, an output door arranged to move in a vertical direction irrespective of whether the pressing plate has reached the stopping point, wherein the capacity of the chamber is variable to accommodate a possible excess in the disgregated materials introduced into the chamber to be compacted, and a telescopic box having on at least one of its walls through holes located in the proximity of the door.

1. Machine for making bales of disgregated material, comprising:
 a compacting chamber having a substantially parallelepiped shape with a first, side wall having an opening towards which a pressing plate moves, a second, side wall having an opening formed therein, a third, side wall, opposite the second wall and having an opening formed therein, a fourth, stationary wall opposite the first wall, and a stopping point for the pressing plate adjacent the opening in the first, side wall; 
 a bale expulsion equipment having an expulsion plate; 
 a bale output equipment, 
 wherein the second and third walls are positioned adjacent to and substantially perpendicular to the first side wall, 
 wherein the second and the third walls each includes an attachment frame that allows the bale expulsion equipment and the bale output equipment to be removably connected to either attachment frame, 
 wherein the expulsion plate is movable between a first, extended position into the compacting chamber to expel a compacted bale from the compacting chamber, a second, retracted position at the compacting chamber, and a third retracted position outside of the compacting chamber and inside the bale expulsion equipment; and 
 an output door positioned near the attachment frame to which the output equipment is attached, 
 wherein the output door is movable between a first closed position for compacting the material and a second, opened position to expel a compacted bale, 
 wherein the output door only moves in the vertical direction, irrespective of whether the pressing plate has reached the stopping point, 
 wherein the pressing plate presses the material against the fourth wall, the output door in the first closed position and the expulsion plate to create a compacted bale, 
 wherein, when the machine detects that excess material is in the compacting chamber, when the pressing plate is prevented from reaching the stopping point, the expulsion plate is moved from the second retracted position to the third refracted position to form a space in the bale expulsion equipment, while the output door is in the first, closed position, whereupon the excess material is moved into the space by driving the pressing plate to cause the material to press against the fourth wall and the closed output door and into the space until the pressing plate reaches the stopping point, and 
 wherein the output door is then moved into the second, opened position, and the expulsion plate is moved to the first, extended position, outputting an oversized bale from the compacting chamber. 
 
     
     
       2. Machine according to  claim 1 , wherein the expulsion equipment is attached to the attachment frame of the second wall, and the output equipment is attached to the attachment frame of the third wall, with the output door being located at the attachment frame of the third wall. 
     
     
       3. Machine according to  claim 1 , wherein the expulsion equipment is attached to the attachment frame of the third wall, and the output equipment is attached to the attachment frame of the second wall, with the output door being located at the attachment frame of the second wall. 
     
     
       4. Machine according to  claim 1 , further comprising a first plurality of through holes formed in a fifth, bottom wall of the compacting chamber for liquids contained in the material being compacted to flow out of the compacting chamber. 
     
     
       5. Machine according to  claim 4 , further comprising a second plurality of through holes in the output equipment to allow air to move out of the machine. 
     
     
       6. Machine according to  claim 1 , wherein the machine, if the space is not enough to accommodate the excess material, the output door is moved into the second, opened position before the pressing plate reaches the stopping point, and the expulsion plate is activated, outputting an oversized bale. 
     
     
       7. Machine according to  claim 1 , wherein the compacted bale is bound after being expelled from the compacting chamber. 
     
     
       8. Machine according to  claim 4 , further comprising a collector under the fifth wall which collects the flowing liquids. 
     
     
       9. Machine according to  claim 8 , wherein the collector diverts the collected liquids away from the machine.